The prolonged period of open hostility and grandstanding among politicians has finally come to an end as MPs from all political parties get together in a post-election workshop in Mombasa. 

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The country has been healing from last year's general election, which saw NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga prevail on his supporters to boycott the repeat polls that were ordered by the supreme court. 

The tension-causing utterances by senior opposition politicians are now rare, which has calmed down the political temperatures in the country.  All NASA leaders have now recognised President Uhuru Kenyatta and his administration in their recent statements. 

Just this week, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, who was Raila Odinga's running mate in the 2017 election, praised new Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko for banning charcoal burning in the country. 

National Assembly minority leader John Mbadi says the bipartisan seminar for MPs has come at an appropriate time to help Kenyans move on from the divisive period of elections. 

"Coming almost immediately after a hotly-contested general election which was followed by an emotive phase, the timing of this post-election seminar could not have been better," said Mbadi, as quoted by Nairobi News. 

 "It will particularly give us an opportunity to hold candid conversations that will help put the nation ahead of daily politics," the leader of opposition MPs in the House said.

It is a huge relief seeing leaders from both NASA and Jubilee coalitions, at last, speaking with one voice --  of putting the interests of the country ahead of everything else. It is time for reconciliation.